XBB.1.16: India hospitals on alert as Covid-19 cases rise
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIndia’s health ministry is conducting mock drills to check preparedness of hospitals to deal with rising Covid-19 cases. Read More
Only Child Syndrome? Growing up with brothers and sisters makes you less likely to get divorced in later life as siblings provide 'practice partners' in childhood, researchers say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGrowing up with siblings means you are less likely to get divorced later in life, a study shows. Read More
Surge in Hindu vigilante mobs who ‘attack and kill’ beef-eating Muslims
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIndia is seeing a surge in Hindu vigilante groups violently targeting Muslims for eating beef, with one leader vowing to protect cows “as…
Uganda:Children abandoning ARVs over lack of food
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome of the children living with HIV/AIDS in Mbale City have stopped taking Antiretrovirals (ARVs) due to lack of food. Read More
WHO seeks improved funding for health in Nigeria
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe World Health Organisation has said Nigeria is still far from meeting the 2001 15 per cent Abuja Declaration on improving the…
Junior doctors' strike could hit up to 250,000 appointments, health bosses warn
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUp to quarter of a million operations and appointments could be postponed due to next week’s junior doctors’ strike, the NHS Confederation…
Vaping: New measures to crack down on illegal sale of e-cigarettes to teenagers
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePlans to make it more difficult for children to illegally buy e-cigarettes in England are to be laid out by the government…
At just 28, Kirsty has achieved something that hasn't been done for nearly 40 years - created a new class of antibiotics - but devastatingly, she now has just months left to live
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteKirsty Smitten harbours fantasies of one day collecting a Nobel Prize for her scientific work – and rightly so, given that it…
Kidney failure drugs for diabetics given go-ahead in England
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than a million people who have both type 2 diabetes and kidney disease could benefit from a daily pill that slashes the…
Nutritionist shares the 'biggest risk' of drinking tap and bottled water
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLe Feuvre pointed out that fizzy and soda water is “actually very acidic”. Read More